Includes "To a Basketball
Player Named Fred" by C. Ray Wylie and other limericks.

Dove, Rita, Selected Poems, New York, Vintage Books, 1993.

In 1993 Rita Dove was named Poet Laureate of the United States, the
youngest person and the first Afro-American to hold this honor. In "Geometry" (page 17) she describes the ecstasy that results from obtaining
the proof of a difficult theorem.

Magpie includes essays, rhymes, and anecdotes, many amusing. Fantasia has some short stories and poems, including "Euclid Alone Has
Looked on Beauty Bare" by Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Euclid" by Vachel Lindsay and the limerick, "There Was an Old Man Who Said, 'Do .
. . ."

Includes "A Mathematician's
Nightmare," "The Prince of Algebra," "You asked me for a birthday gift suggestion . . ." and other mathematical poems.

Heaford, Philip, The Math Entertainer, Buchanan, NY, Emerson Books.

Rhymes and puzzles.

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal.

Many issues of this journal contain poetry and articles about the links between mathematics and the
arts. To join the Humanistic Mathematics Network and receive its journal, contact Alvin White, Department of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd
College, Claremont, CA 91711.

Reissued in 1993 by the MAA along with a
companion volume, Out of the Mouths of Mathematicians by Rosemary Schmalz. Moritz' collection includes verse by Dante, DeMorgan,
Goethe, and Wordsworth and a mnemonic by A.C. Orr for the first thirty digits of pi.

Nemerov, Howard, The Western Approaches, University of Chicago Press, 1975.

Includes "Figures of Thought," which describes the wonder felt at the discovery of the logarithmic spiral realized in diverse ways in nature ,
and "Two Pair," which links gambling with laws of thermodynamics and with Biblical laws.

Newman, James R., Mathematics: A Small Library of the Literature of Mathematics, presented with Commentaries and
Notes by James R. Newman, Redmond, WA, Tempus, 1956, 1988.